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| Guillon, Erwan; Menot, Lenaick; Decker, Carole; Krylova, Elena; Olu, Karine. |
| The high biodiversity found at cold seeps, despite elevated concentrations of methane and hydrogen sulfide, is attributed to multiple sources of habitat heterogeneity. In addition to geological and geochemical processes, biogenic habitats formed by large symbiont-bearing taxa, such as bivalves and siboglinid tubeworms, or by microbial mats drive the biodiversity of small-sized fauna. However, because these habitat-forming species also depend on geochemical gradients, the respective influence of abiotic and biotic factors in structuring associated macrofaunal communities is often unresolved. The giant pockmark Regab located at 3200 m depth on the Congo margin is characterized by different fluid-flow regimes, providing a mosaic of the most common biogenic... |
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Palavras-chave: Cold-seep; Macrofauna; Diversity; Dynamics; Vesicomyid clams; Gulf of Guinea. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00361/47210/47165.pdf |
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| Menot, Lenaick; Galeron, Joelle; Olu, Karine; Caprais, Jean-claude; Crassous, Philippe; Khripounoff, Alexis; Sibuet, Myriam. |
| The structure and familial-level composition of macrofaunal communities were examined within and at distance from the giant pockmark Regab in the Southern Gulf of Guinea, at 3200 m depth. The two main questions addressed in this study were (i) does habitat partitioning by large symbiont-bearing taxa. influence macrofaunal assemblages and their environment? and (ii) to what extent does the chemosynthesis-based ecosystem influence the structure and the composition of nearby macrobenthic communities? Along two radials, at sites from 250 to 1000 m away from the active centre of the cold seep, the abundance and composition of the macrofauna were typical of a deep-sea community at that depth. Except for a few cores sampled in or near dead vesicomyid fields at... |
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Palavras-chave: Cold seep; Diversity; Gulf of Guinea; Habitat heterogeneity; Macrofauna; Open slope; Siboglinid tubeworms; Vesicomyid clams. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00002/11282/8099.pdf |
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